Auger-handle



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AUGER HANDLE. No. 461,529. Patented Oct. 20, 1891.

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FRANCIS M. HAY, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

'AUGER-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,529, dated-ctober 20, 1891.

Application filed June 26, 1890. Serial No. 356,805. (No model.)

To alt whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. HAY, a c'itizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in

the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAuger-Handles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to augerhandles; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the panying drawings as follows:

Figure 1 shows the essential parts of the device in longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 shows the same parts in transverse vertical section on line so a, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top or plan View of the gripping mechanism. Figs. 4t and 5 show an alternat-iveconstruction. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line y 3 ,Fig. at, looking in the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 4 being a longitudinal section in the plane of the line .2 z in Fig. 5.

A is the stock or central part of the handle, which is made of malleable iron, is hollow, contains the gripping apparatus, and serves as a socket for the wooden ends of the handle A A.

A is an iron ferrule on the end of one of the wooden handles and has a screwrth read ed opening a through it into the cavity a in the end of the wooden part. The ferrule A abuts against the ledge or shoulder a on the inside of the stock A.

B is a loop or frame composed of the sides b b and ends 1) b and it fits in a guideway a at the central part of the stock. (Seen in Fig. 2 most clearly.) On one end of the loop B there is a screw-threaded shank b which enters the screw-threaded opening a in the ferrule A The end 12 of the loop extends above the sides of the loop and is concave on its inner side. There is a central transverse opening A through the stock to receive the shank of the auger, which, when inserted, will be within the loop B.

Within the loop there are two jaws C 0,

of the stock near the shoulder a, the bearingfaces of which are concaved to conform to the convexity of the back of the jaw.

The jaws O G are put into the loop before it is insertedinto the stock,andthe loop when inserted into the stock is putin at the end opposite the shoulders a and a with the screw-shank b -in advance. The handle A, having the ferrule A thereon, is then inserted at the opposite end of the stock from that at which the loop was inserted, and the screwshank b is screwed into the ferrule by turning the handle. The other handle A is then inserted in the end of the stock opposite the handle having the ferrulethereon and the device is then ready for use. Then an angershankis inserted in the opening A the handle A, having the ferrule thereon is turned and the loop is drawn toward it. This brings the jaws into contact with the auger-shank, and as they have their bearings against concaved surfaces they will adjust themselves to the taper of the shank and obtain a firm bearing thereon, and when the screw is firmly set up the auger will be tightly gripped.

In the alternative construction shown. in Figs. 4 and 5 there is a loose-winged nut A held in a recessed opening in the end of the ferrule A in place of the end of the ferrule forming the nut. A marks the opening in the end of the ferrule, a the recesses in the sides of said opening, and a the wings on the nut A, which fit in said recesses. Winged nuts fittingin recessed openings are common in mechanical construction, and the purpose of their use is well under-stood by the most ordinary mechanics. The functions of the several parts in the present construction are the same as ordinarilythat is to say, the function of the opening A is to receive the nut A and that of the recesses a is to re The object of I00 the construction shown in Fig. 1 and give a flexible and yielding connection between the ferrule and the nut.

Vhat I claim as new is- 1. In an auger-handle, the combination of the stock A, having, the transverse opening A bearing shonlders a and a and sockets for the handles A" A, the threaded ferrule A on one of said handles, the loop B, with serew-shank working in said threaded ferrule, and the jaws C C, contained Within said loop, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In an anger-handle, a stock A, having sockets for the handles A A, a transverse opening for the auger-shank, a longitudinal r5 FRANCIS M. I-IAY. \Vitnesses: a

J. M. G. MoKERRoW, CHAS. E. GRAHAM. 

